Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-07-30
GENERAL. NEWS.

Judge Lewis. of Sioux City, the prohi-
bitionist candidate for supreme court Judge,
has declined because, as he says, he has con-
fdence in the republican party to settle the
temperance question.
VIII. Minty, clerk in the Missouri Pa
cific offices at Lincoln, Nebraska, committed
suicide because of disappointment IN q
love affair.
A baby at Aurora, Illinois, died from
drinking water in which fy-paper was soak
ing. By leaving fly poison around within
easy reach, one may catch the babies as well
as the flies.
Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, has request
ed the British government to suspend
further evictions until parliament has dis
posed of the land BILL
Bulgaria complains that its note to the
powers asking approval of the election OF
Ferdinand to the throne resolves nothing
but evasive replies.
A movement has been started in Boston to
organize women and girls into tyades-unions
similar to those male trade organlZauons
tibet have not joined theKnights OF Labor.
The Chicago Times says it is not easy to
realize the extent of the calamity inflicted
on that city by the awful heat of Saturday
and Sunday. If the same number OF peo-
pie had been lost in a shipwreck, con-
Migration, railroad accident, or a disaster
of any other kind, the public would have
been appalled,. The figures are startling.
At the latest returns the number OF persons
sunstruck and overcome by heat was 1873.
OF these 1877 were fatal, 10 were dying, %
had recovered, and 15 were on the way to
recovery. The coroner's book was full of
entries, and he and his deputies
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ing, at which time they had held 81 in
quests. The county hospital, the police sta |
tions, and the morgue were scenes of curl
Gus and unusual activity. The cool wave at |
Chicago was not general. At st. Louis, the
thermometer registered LOG, at Shelbyville,
Illinois, it was 108, at Cincinnati the hottest |
it has been in twenty years, and GO cases of
sunstrOke were reported.
The secretary of the interior approves the
recommendation of the commissioner of the
general land Office that commission be ap-
pointed to inspect the condition of certain
wagon-roads in Oregon, and has appointed
represent the department on the commits
sion.
Francisco Baca has been arrested at Albu-
suerque, New Mexico, for the robbery of
$11, 900 from the safe of the Apache county,
Arizona, treasurer in 1885.
A frightful mortality among children in
Pittsburg and Allegheny is reported. With
in six weeks 1,137 deaths have occurred, 70
per cent. of which were under years old.
The governor of Nebraska refuses to COM
mute the sentence of David w. Hoffman,
who is to be hanged at Nebraska City Friday
for wrecking the Missouri Pacific train at
Dunbar last winter.
The anniversary of the death of President
Juarez was impressively celebrated at the
City of Mexico.
Mr.. Fletcher Hines, a prominent and
wealthy farmer living near Indianapolis,
has abandoned wife and two children and
eloped with Miss Alice Hunter, young lady
of the neighborhood. Hines father is a law
partner of Senator Ben Harrison.
Queen Kapiolani did not wait for the Amer
lean convoy, but sailed from San Francisco
on the steamer Australia.
The Manufacturers association of Bever-
ly, Massachusetts, has locked out the lasters .
of all the association boot and shoe shops. | 6
Over 150 lasters are out. 1t
Mrs. Witter, the heroine in the sensational t
poisoning case at Denver, came into court
appearance August 1 to answer to the charge t
o murder. t
Moritz Ekhardt, living near Lockport, Z
Illinois, blew the top of his head off. He 7
was farm hand, but one of evident an g
archist tendencies, for in his room were =
found a number of socialist papers and sew
sral of Herr Mosts incendiary pamphlets. s
Lord Mayor Sullivan, who presided at e
meeting of the National league at Dublin, a
declared that the whole league was prepared a
20 stand its ground and defy the coercion Q
lct and take the consequences.
John Bowling, wealthy and prominent
,itizen of Galena, Illinois, died at ST. Louis,
where he had gone for medical treatment. Y
Senator Sherman is delegate to the Ohio c
republican state convention.
Jimmy Carroll, the celebrated bank thief,
has arrived at Joliet, where he is booked
for term of eight years.
Senator Chandler denies that he ever
wrote any letter favoring Blaine and Sher- T
man for the republican presidential ticket.
Joseph Adele and Peter Nelson, two con- I
7lcts at Joliet, were sent to the insane
asylum at Elgin. Id
The quarterly statement of the postofice !,
business shows a gain of 9 per cent at !
lineage over the same quarter last year.
The Bulgarian government is said to have
arrested M. hadoslavoH, the premier and i
minister of the interior in the cabinet just b
for treason.
Governor Hill, Mr.. Manning, w. s. Bis
yell, the presidents former law partner, and J
Dan Lamont are at Long Branch and rumor
has it that they had their heads together !,
concerning the fall campaign.
The natural waterways convention is in
session at Sault Ste. Marie. Over four Q
hundred delegat es are in attendance. The 8
main object is to get an appropriation from s
congress of 100000 to improve the Hay
AXE channel. ,
A Conflict of miners and sheriff s deputies 9
ook place at the Monmouth coke-works at :
ireensburg, Pennsylvania, and fifteen men
we're driven from work. The sheriff has 1
,alled on the governor for help. C
The Illinois department of agriculture 2
puts the condition of corn at 101. But this
hardly agrees with reports that come from